American Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-centur
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English Pages xvii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Year 2016
Table of contents :
Abraham Joshua Heschel, prophet of divine pathos --
A.J. Muste: the redemptive power of nonviolent suffering --
Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement: doing the works of mercy --
Howard Thurman: in search of common ground --
Thomas Merton: contemplation in a world of action --
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: religion in US politics --
"Is this America?" Fannie Lou Hamer and the voices of local people.